Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.

Cheever, John

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Boileau, Nicholas

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

11.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

17.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

18.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

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Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

27.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

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What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Freud, Sigmund

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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.

Handey, Jack